![]() ![]() Essence is functionally just another kind of ‘mana’ style resource - you spend it to cast certain spells. The two resource pools that Necromancers use and manage are Essence and Corpses. Tap into the Essence of death and use Corpses as you wish ![]() The Book of the Dead lets you tailor your character outside of merely selecting Skills from the Skill Tree, in a manner that’s analogous to the D4 Barbarian’s Arsenal system or the Druid’s ability to focus on either animal summoning or shapeshifting. So you can be the master of a walking army of rotting corpses and bony servants, not just a few. At least that seems to be the suggestion from this interview with Rod Fergusson and Joe Shely. The Book of the Dead also allows you to decide and customize individual summons, so you can have Skeleton Warriors, Archers, or Mages, or a variety of Golems including Iron Golems. Do you want your Necromancer to focus on having many different kinds of undead minions? Would you maybe prefer to focus on one in particular and trade away the other potential summons in exchange for buffs to your other spells and abilities? Or would you honestly like to focus instead of the diseases, blood, and bone inside living things and trade away all of your rotting servitors for the power to more directly harm your enemies? The real flashy, fancy new mechanic is the Book of the Dead, which allows a Necromancer a strong level of customization. Necromancers will dare to read the Book of the Dead So, what does gameplay for Necromancers look like in Diablo 4? Without actually having played one yet, all we can say that it’s definitely inspired by previous versions of the class without being a carbon copy of it. In general, there’s definitely a sense of trying to preserve the feel of the class as we’ve seen it in other Diablo games, with specific abilities hearkening back to Diablo 2 while other design elements are definitely inspired by Diablo 3. The Necromancer in Diablo 4 has been outlined in one of the Diablo 4 Quarterly Updates, which we talked about somewhat briefly in the overall roundup post for D4‘s classes. ![]()
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